4 options
Arthur Mervyn; or, Memoirs of the year 1793 ...
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Singer-Mendenhall Collection PS1134 .A73 1799 v.1
Available in person
Request an item
Access options
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Singer-Mendenhall Collection PS1134 .A73 1799 v.1
Available in person
Request an item
Access options
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection PS1134 .A73 1799 v.2
Available in person
Request an item
Access options
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection PS1134 .A73 1799 v.1-2
Available in person
Request an item
Access options
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brown, Charles Brockden, 1771-1810.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Yellow fever--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--Fiction.
- Yellow fever.
- Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Bringhuist, Mary D. (autograph) (cop. 1, v. 1)
- Faires, John W. (donor) (autograph) (cop. 2, v. 2)
- Stevenson, A. May (bookplate) (Singer-Mendenhall cop. 1)
- Physical Description:
- 2 volumes ; 18 cm (12mo)
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : H. Maxwell, 1799.
- Summary:
- A novel describing Philadelphia during the yellow fever epidemic in 1793.
- Notes:
- Vol. 2 has imprint: New-York, Printed and sold by G. F. Hopkins, 1800.
- Preface signed: C. B. B. [i.e. Charles Brockden Brown]
- Local Notes:
- Singer-Mendenhall copies imperfect: v.2 wanting.
- RBC c.1, v.2 original t.p. wanting; in its place pen and ink facsimile; some leaves in the same volume repaired.
- RBC copy 2 imperfect: v.1 wanting.
- Cited in:
- ESTC (RLIN) W4441
- BAL 1498 (vol. 1)
- BAL 1501 (vol. 2)
- Evans 35243 (vol. 1)
- Evans 37053 (vol. 2)
- Wright, L.H. Amer. fiction, 1774-1850 (2nd ed.), 418
- OCLC:
- 2432322
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.